The BEST episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea season 1

Every episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea season 1!

Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.

Last Updated: 2/15/2024Network: FOXStatus: Ended
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Turn Back the Clock
star
8.04
23 votes

#1 - Turn Back the Clock

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1964

A lush, tropical, verdant paradise in the South Pole? Living dinosaurs? Such fanciful ideas must surely be the ravings of a madman. Or perhaps not, as Admiral Nelson soon discovers. The question is, will he and Crane survive their trip to a lost world?

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Hail to the Chief
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7.88
16 votes

#2 - Hail to the Chief

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1964

Injured in a fall, the President of the United States is in desperate need of surgery -- and the operation must be kept secret. Naturally, Seaview is chosen as the best place for the operation. An enemy agent, taking the place of the doctor who would have used a radiological device on the President, will attempt to kill the Commander-in-Chief with a deadly ray. Will she be discovered in time to save the President?

Directors: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Don Brinkley
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Doomsday
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7.88
16 votes

#3 - Doomsday

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1965

When a mass missile launching by a foreign power sets the U.S. on nuclear alert, the Seaview goes into a fail-safe maneuver, but is the launch really what it appears to be, and does this actually mean it's "doomsday?"

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Submarine Sunk Here
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7.75
24 votes

#4 - Submarine Sunk Here

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1964

Damaged by an explosion from an old mine field, Seaview takes a dive to the ocean floor. Listing dangerously, running out of oxygen, having to deal with fire and flood, the crew can do nothing but wait for help. But will help arrive in time?

Directors: Leonard J. Horn
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The Creature
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7.66
38 votes

#5 - The Creature

Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/22/1965

The crew is joined by Captain Adams, the sole survivor of an ill-fated missile launch, in search of the mysterious force responsible for the disaster.

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Hot Line
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7.55
22 votes

#6 - Hot Line

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1964

A Soviet satellite has crashed into the sea and its nuclear reactor must be disarmed before it causes a disaster. Two Soviet scientists come aboard Seaview to carry out the work -- but one of them is an imposter.

Directors: John Brahm
Writer: Berne Giler
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The Price of Doom
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7.54
24 votes

#7 - The Price of Doom

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1964

A husband and wife Antarctic research team is killed by an experiment on plankton gone wild. Seaview arrives to investigate and take plankton samples. Soon the submarine is in danger of succumbing to the horrible, slimy growth. Nelson, Crane and crew face another problem: one of the three scientists on board the sub is an enemy agent.

Directors: James Goldstone
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The Buccaneer
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7.54
13 votes

#8 - The Buccaneer

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/8/1965

A mad art connoisseur seizes control of the Seaview and plans to pirate Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa from a French Ship bound for the World's Fair.

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The Mist of Silence
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7.46
28 votes

#9 - The Mist of Silence

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1964

On a rendezvous mission, Crane and several crewmen are drugged into unconsciousness on a deserted yacht. Waking up in a South American prison, the men are taken out to the courtyard, one per hour, and executed. All will die unless Crane breaks his oath and confesses what he cannot. Will Nelson's rescue mission succeed? Will the country in question survive the machinations of the evil man who wants to take over?

Directors: Leonard J. Horn
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Eleven Days to Zero
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7.38
110 votes

#10 - Eleven Days to Zero

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1964

A gigantic tidal wave will destroy much of the civilized world, but Admiral Harriman Nelson has a plan to stop it -- Seaview will set off a nuclear explosion at precisely the right time and place. Evil forces seek to destroy Nelson before he implements his plan -- in the chaos following the tidal wave, they hope to take over the world! Seaview's original Skipper is killed and it's Lee Crane from the US Navy to the rescue.

Directors: Irwin Allen
Writer: Irwin Allen
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The City Beneath the Sea
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7.36
47 votes

#11 - The City Beneath the Sea

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1964

While investigating the disappearance of research ships in the Aegean, the Seaview is damaged by a bomb. Captain Crane goes ashore, and pretends to be a diver for hire. The Captain meets an ex-diver, now a mute due to a tragic accident, who claims to have seen a "city beneath the sea". Crane gets hired by the "bad guy", but his cover is soon blown. He is taken prisoner and nearly loses his life.

Directors: John Brahm
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The Village of Guilt
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7.32
22 votes

#12 - The Village of Guilt

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1964

A sea monster kills three villagers in a Norwegian fjord; however, one man survives. Seaview arrives to investigate. Nelson and Crane are met with hostility from the locals and find the survivor has died. Nelson does his best to make sure the "sea monster" doesn't destroy Seaview.

Directors: Irwin Allen
Writer: Berne Giler
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The Secret of the Loch
star
7.30
10 votes

#13 - The Secret of the Loch

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/5/1965

The Seaview travels to Scotland via a secret, underground conduit to investigate the mystery of the legendary Loch Ness Monster.

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The Human Computer
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7.25
12 votes

#14 - The Human Computer

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/15/1965

A newly installed super-computer is tested on the Seaview...but the enemy has other plans.

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The Sky is Falling
star
7.22
23 votes

#15 - The Sky is Falling

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1964

An alien spaceship lands in the ocean, and Seaview is sent to investigate. Although Seaview is powerless in the vicinity of their ship, the aliens seem friendly, and Nelson manages to open negotiations. The military authorities, however, have other ideas, and Seaview may be in as much danger from human interference as from the aliens.

Directors: Leonard J. Horn
Writer: Don Brinkley
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The Indestructible Man
star
7.15
13 votes

#16 - The Indestructible Man

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/1/1965

After returning from a mission on deep space, a lifelike robot is brought aboard the Seaview, but the crew soon discovers that the robot has been mysteriously reprogrammed to wreak havoc.

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The Fear-Makers
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7.13
39 votes

#17 - The Fear-Makers

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1964

After Seaview's sister ship, Polidor, is lost on an experimental deep dive, Seaview continues with the tests. Unknown to the already stressed crew, one of the visiting psychologists aboard is an enemy agent who has released a fear-causing gas into the air system. As Seaview plunges into the depths a dangerous panic starts to spread.

Directors: Leonard J. Horn
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The Invaders
star
7.08
13 votes

#18 - The Invaders

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/25/1965

An undersea earthquake exhumes hundreds of strange metallic capsules, and a powerful humanoid creature who could destroy mankind is restored to life after millions of years in suspended animation.

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The Last Battle
star
7.00
12 votes

#19 - The Last Battle

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/4/1965

Admiral Nelson is kidnapped from a plane during mid-flight and held on a remote island by Nazis who plan to conquer the world.

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The Enemies
star
6.90
10 votes

#20 - The Enemies

Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/29/1965

Nelson and Crane hear about the destruction of the submarine Angler. When they read the captain's log and hear the tapes made in the control room, Nelson and Crane are puzzled: Captain Williams wen insane and machine-gunned officer Richardson, yet both men were close friends. It seems that after they had left a mysterious island, the men became deadly enemies.

Directors: Felix Fiest
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The Traitor
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6.89
9 votes

#21 - The Traitor

Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/19/1965

Nelson's sister is abducted by enemy agents who demand top-secret information as ransom, but will Nelson betray his country to protect the only family he has?

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Long Live the King
star
6.85
13 votes

#22 - Long Live the King

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1964

When the King of a small but friendly nation is assassinated, Seaview is assigned to take the young Crown Prince back home to assume his throne. Neither Nelson (who gets turned out of his own cabin) nor Crane are used to handling children. Help arrives in the form of a mysterious flute-playing old man who befriends the boy after he is picked up at sea.

Directors: Laslo Benedek
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No Way Out
star
6.82
17 votes

#23 - No Way Out

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1964

Nelson and Crane go undercover and risk their lives in order to bring a Communist defector back to the United States. But the man is injured in the attempt, and his lover is left behind. He won't speak to the agent waiting for him on Seaview (actually a double agent) until he is reunited with his Anna. But even Anna is not all she seems.

Directors: Felix Feist
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The Condemned
star
6.78
9 votes

#24 - The Condemned

Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/12/1965

Nelson and Crane are dismayed when an egotistical, publicity-seeking scientist is given command of the Seaview to test a new pressure system which will allow the sub to explore uncharted depths.

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The Blizzard Makers
star
6.69
16 votes

#25 - The Blizzard Makers

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1964

In blizzard-wracked Florida, Nelson contacts a meteorologist who may be able to help explain the strange weather conditions. That night, however, the scientist is abducted, and "programmed" to kill Nelson. When his first attempt fails, he comes aboard Seaview when she sails to investigate the source of the problem, and continues his efforts.

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